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In 1492, you set out for a new united kingdom of Spain and discovered a new world in the Western Hemisphere. After an extensive amount of time used to follow the Europeans journeys you and the Spaniards began a great exchange of people, plants, spices, animals and unfortunately a deadly disease between America and Europe. The Europeans collected raw materials such as (…..gold, silver, and new and nutritious plants such as tomatoes.). In return, they transferred (….horses to transform the New World, and inadvertently transmitted the deadly disease smallpox, which decimated the native populations.). Columbus, your voyage opened up a new era of trade between Europe and the Americas, it transferred resources and organisms that greatly benefited

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